Need a hard drive cloning software.

[piper1]

Hi does anyone know of any decent software to clone a complete hard drive.
It's been a few years since i last done this and if my memory is still intact the last program was called "GHOST"

Thank you

[VapingBad]

MiniTool Drive Copy is free IIRC, I have used it for flashing multipul operation systems on phones SD cards.

[andy01424]

Jul 14, 2014 23:08:16 GMT piper1 said:

Hi does anyone know of any decent software to clone a complete hard drive.
It's been a few years since i last done this and if my memory is still intact the last program was called "GHOST"

Thank you

not seen that for nearly 10yrs!!!! windows 7 has a backup you can do a image and reinstall from that takes flaming ages though

[mybad]

All this sort of stuff is WAY over my head .

[VapingBad]

easyus and paragon are good to, but MiniTool Drive Copy should do you.

I have about 60 CDs og Ghost images, Since Norton bought it it has gone Corporate and focuses on large scale deployment IIRC. No more bunging a disk in and rebooting for home users.

[thatguy]

Nice free tool here

Works from xp to win 8. Can handle raids and even lets you create PE or linux rescue discs. Simple to use, free for personal use.

Used to love Ghost back in the day, but like most other norton software, it's now bloated donkeyware.

[boyofford]

Used clonezilla for this, works fine for me, and quick.
Can do whole hard drive image or partitions, makes a small backup image too.

No pro on it though, forums are pretty good being opensource if you can't find a answer someone will help you pretty quick.

[boyofford]

Jul 14, 2014 23:13:42 GMT andy01424 said:

Jul 14, 2014 23:08:16 GMT piper1 said:

Hi does anyone know of any decent software to clone a complete hard drive.
It's been a few years since i last done this and if my memory is still intact the last program was called "GHOST"

Thank you

not seen that for nearly 10yrs!!!! windows 7 has a backup you can do a image and reinstall from that takes flaming ages though

Tried windows 7 backup recently to see if it was any good... backup seemed to go ok but wouldn't restore so I gave up lol

[piper1]

Thank you for all the replies, great stuff.

[Bob]

One of the best on the market is Macrium Reflect

[fred]

+1 for clonezilla, if you need a ui.

But you can't bead dd in a Linux terminal.

[boyofford]

Jul 15, 2014 9:56:25 GMT fred said:

+1 for clonezilla, if you need a ui.

But you can't bead dd in a Linux terminal.

Think clonezilla uses dd for certain operations? but could be wrong?

[fred]

Jul 15, 2014 10:35:55 GMT boyofford said:

Jul 15, 2014 9:56:25 GMT fred said:

+1 for clonezilla, if you need a ui.

But you can't bead dd in a Linux terminal.

Think clonezilla uses dd for certain operations? but could be wrong?

It does for the copying operations, but lumps partitioning, formatting, compressing, etc commands into a user interface for those that are scared of the command line.

[boyofford]

Jul 15, 2014 11:07:38 GMT fred said:

Jul 15, 2014 10:35:55 GMT boyofford said:

Think clonezilla uses dd for certain operations? but could be wrong?

It does for the copying operations, but lumps partitioning, formatting, compressing, etc commands into a user interface for those that are scared of the command line.

I use terminal a fair bit but mostly for operations where I'm copying and pasting from forums.

I can never remember the correct commands from one month to the next!

[GunJack]

another vote for macrium.... used often, never failed